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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — To guard against unsafe food reaching consumers in today’s international marketplace, the Food Safety Institute of the Americas is being established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in cooperation with the University of Florida and other participants in 31 nations of the hemisphere.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Americans’ reactions to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has been reminiscent of the alarm and panic the nation felt after the launch of the Soviets’ Sputnik more than 45 years ago, but a University of Florida researcher says there’s one key difference: Sputnik prompted far more national soul-searching.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida’s consumer confidence remained unchanged in October, a sign that the economic recovery from the 2001 recession is more sluggish than expected, which could influence voters, University of Florida economists report.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — On-the-job exposure to low doses of powerful medications commonly administered to patients intravenously in the operating room may be a factor leading some anesthesiologists to abuse drugs, a theory University of Florida researchers will present Saturday at the 34th annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new technique with the potential to significantly improve the design and manufacturing process for automobile parts may benefit consumers fed up with frequent recalls and repairs.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A team of University of Florida researchers has created tiny hybrid particles that can speedily root out even one isolated E. coli bacterium lurking in ground beef or provide a crucial early warning alarm for bacteria used as agents of bioterrorism and for early disease diagnosis.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A team of University of Florida researchers has invented a way to rapidly detect traces of TNT or other hidden explosives simply by shining a light on any potentially contaminated object, from a speck of dust in the air to the surface of a suitcase.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Fourteen high-poverty elementary schools in Jacksonville, Miami-Dade County and Gainesville are forming a network and partnering with the University of Florida in a no-holds-barred effort to turn around their low student achievement and high teacher turnover.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Menopausal women continue to overestimate the real risks and benefits of hormone replacement therapy — and so do their doctors, University of Florida researchers report in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — New genetic research of human lice supports the evolutionary theory of direct contact between modern and archaic humans, according to a study co-authored by a University of Florida researcher. The study sheds light on a hotly debated topic in evolutionary biology: the origin of modern Homo sapiens.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The body attempts to heal a damaged spinal cord in much the same way it repairs skin after simple cuts and scrapes, an insight that may lead to new treatments for the thousands of people paralyzed each year because of spinal cord injuries, say scientists at the University of Florida Health Science Center.

This article was published in the Miami Herald on Oct. 7.
By: Daniel A. Smith
Daniel A. Smith teaches political science at the University of Florida.
Residents of Florida, beware. Your rights are under attack.

This article appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Oct. 20.
By: Joshua Comenetz
Joshua Comenetz is a University of Florida geography professor.
The most notable aspect of the presidential contest is not Florida’s likely repeat performance as tiebreaker, but rather that Florida continues to shift enough toward the Democrats to be seriously in play.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Fifty years after James Watson and Francis Crick discovered DNA’s structure, scientists are learning to redesign it, creating new ways to diagnose diseases and unlocking the chemical ancestors of life, a University of Florida chemist writes in a paper to appear in this week’s issue of the journal Science.